The Kremlin's main international media

RT (formerly russia Today) is a russian propaganda state-owned multilingual television company focused on foreign audiences. It has existed since 2005, is funded by the russian government, and is based in moscow. It broadcasts in English, Arabic, Spanish, russian and German.
It positions itself as an ‘alternative to the Anglo-Saxon global information space’, or news channels such as CNN and BBC. In contrast to the Soviet practice of foreign broadcasting during the Cold War only from moscow, RT has a policy of opening foreign branches and hiring local journalists. RT is banned from broadcasting in the European Union because it engages in systematic information attacks on kremlin opponents.
Sputnik is a news agency that unites websites, a mobile app, online broadcasts, Sputnik Radio and press centres. It is part of the russia Today international media holding. The agency is also headquartered in moscow. Sputnik has regional offices and bureaus in various countries, including the United States, Egypt, China, Uruguay, and Kyrgyzstan. The agency broadcasts kremlin propaganda to foreign audiences.

"Pravda" website network is controlled from the Kremlin

russian propaganda influences the responses of AI chatbots.In 2024, the "Pravda" website network published (https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-funded-moscow-based-global) at least 207 proven fakes related to Ukraine in 3.6 million articles, which were picked up by leading AI chatbots from Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, xAI, Meta, Anthropic, Mistral, Perplexity, and You.com.The network spreads disinformation in dozens of languages in different geographical regions. Out of 150 sites, 40 are in russian, published under domain names targeting specific cities and regions of Ukraine.- 70 sites are focused on Europe and use English, French, Czech, Irish and Finnish.- 30 sites are targeted at countries in Africa, the Pacific, the Middle East, North America, the Caucasus and Asia.Chatbots are becoming the main source of information for people, but AI systems cannot distinguish truth from disinformation.

The Global Fact-Checking Network is a smokescreen for promoting propaganda

Of the 39 publications analysed by the Global Fact-Checking Network (GFCN), at least 15 are dedicated to promoting the network itself and its participants, rather than refuting fakes, according to the international organisation Reporters Without Borders (RSF): https://rsf.org/sites/default/files/medias/file/2025/06/GFCN_UA.pdf?mc_cid=9c7d2be6ff&mc_eid=06fc9a4c92
‘The GFCN does not verify facts — it manipulates them,’ said Pauline Moffret, RSF's regional manager. Moreover, the name GFCN is almost identical to the authoritative International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), which, according to IFCN Director Angie D.Holan, was done deliberately by the russians to mislead people.
The GFCN network was created by russians in November 2024, and its website went live in April 2025. Its ‘experts’ include well-known pro-Kremlin figures from France (Christelle Nean), Italy (Andrea Lucidi) and the Netherlands (Sonya van den Ende), who actively support russia's aggression against Ukraine and spread moscow's false narratives.

Pepe Escobar, a ‘Brazilian journalist’ working for Russian intelligence services

This man regularly appears as an analyst on rt and sputnik channels (sputnik Africa even presents him as an ‘rt analyst’). Escobar's recent article with ultimatums to Kyiv, published on 3 June, was reprinted on the same day by the Italian portal L'Antidiplomatico (which is also in our database of russian agents) in Italian, and then appeared on the InoSMI website, owned by the "rossiya Segodnya" holding company, which publishes articles from foreign publications translated into russian. 

Eurasia Daily, a Russian propaganda outlet

The site positions itself as an international media outlet that covers the ‘truth’ about important events around the world. There is only one caveat: almost all the materials have signs of fake news and kremlin propaganda. Most often, the publications are about discrediting Ukraine and its allies, especially the United States. In addition, the decisions and actions of the putin regime are described only in a positive light. One of the most recent fakes is that "Ukrainian special services organised the explosion of Nord Stream in 2022, and the operation was personally led by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine". In addition, the website has only 2 languages: russian and English. Of course, the site does not publish any editorial contacts or names of editorial staff members, but there are links to the russian search engines Rambler and Mail.ru.

Russia aggressively uses the Telegram social network to spread its own propaganda

According to Stopfake.org, almost 800 pro-russian channels in 30 languages ​​have been found in the foreign segment of the Telegram social network. A total of 15.7 million users read them. Every day, the posts of these resources collect an average of 100 million views. Among the 100 most popular channels, 12 russian war correspondents (i.e. employees of the kremlin's special services), politicians and media from russia were found.
In 2023, TASS created Spanish- and French-language channels. The "Fisherman" project (1 million subscribers) now has an English-language version. russian propagandists have networks of news channels in foreign languages. Often they have the same name (eg "infodefitaly" and "infodefpoland"). Already six such networks have been identified.
russian propaganda is actively quoted by foreign news channels - it is almost half of the 800. Among them are English-speaking ones, for example, "Intel Slava Z" (500,000 subscribers) or "Slavyangrad" (100,000 subscribers). Or the German "Übersicht Ukraine" and the Hungarian "Oroszok Az Igazság Oldalán". Another group is foreign bloggers. Currently, there are almost 100 channels from 25 countries.In the south of Western Europe, Telegram is growing most actively: the number of views of pro-kremlin media in Italian has increased almost 2 times, in Spanish and Portuguese - 7 times. The most popular here are the Italian RT, photojournalist from Donbas Giorgio Bianchi, right-wing radical blogger Rossella Fidanza.
"International Reporters" is one of the most popular pro-kremlin telegram channels in France (among 27). In it, you can find posts about the "doomed to disaster" Olympics and russia's economic success. There is also a French-language version of the blog of an ex-employee of the Security Service of Ukraine, Vasyl Prozorov, who turned out to be an agent of the kremlin.
Of all EU countries, Germany has the most pro-russian channels - 125. For example, Alina Lipp's blog has 187,000 subscribers. Most of the channels are followers of the far-right QAnon movement. Among them is the covid-dissident Beate Baner, as well as the news channels "Mäckle macht gute Laune", "Freie Medien", "LION Media" and others.In the USA, kremlin propaganda is broadcast via Telegram by dozens of channels that are followers of the same QAnon movement. The biggest one is "Midnight Rider Channel". They are preparing for nuclear war, oppose abortion and support putin. Official propaganda - "russian American Daily" - has its own American channels. Here bloggers, for example, "Russell TEXAS Bentley" (writes about Donbas, russia and the war in Ukraine) and Scott Ritter, are actively spreading kremlin disinformation.
Researcher of russian influence in Europe, professor of the Central European University, Anton Shekhovtsov, explains: "The tactic of russian propaganda is to fill the entire information space with its narratives, to use any possible platforms. The ultimate goal of such channels is not so much to directly influence people, but to make the narratives spread by them get into the mainstream media and, accordingly, reach a legitimate level."
We remind you that the Telegram social network was created in russia. Although its owner Pavel Durov has been living outside the country for a long time, and allegedly the entire Telegram business team is also located outside russia, there is certain evidence that the kremlin's special services have control over this social network and full access to the database, which can be used for criminal purposes.

"Últimas noticias" systematically broadcasts Russian propaganda

The Venezuelan media unilaterally covers international events that completely coincide with russian propaganda. A fragment from the latest publications of "Últimas noticias": "In short, russia is a small, peaceful country, surrounded on all sides by a vicious warlike Ukraine, which is ruled by a "fascist terrorist regime. With money from the West, ISIS was created in the center of Europe, only stronger and scarier." Another fragment: "The russian military found laboratories for the production of chemical weapons in Ukraine." All this indicates that "Últimas noticias" is closely cooperating with putin's terrorist regime.

Russian propaganda in Latin America

Many Latin Americans continue to follow the Kremlin narrative: Washington is to blame for everything because it forced russia to attack Ukraine. But according to many polls, Latin America wants to live like in the US. Many there sympathize with the American way of life. However, russia is trying to polarize the societies of different countries on this issue. How?